Paris-based genre specialists Reel Suspects have boarded sales on New Religion, the debut feature from Japanese filmmaker Keishi Kondo, Deadline have reported today.
The sci-fi horror has been making the rounds at genre festivals across Europe since making its world premiere at London’s ARROW FrightFest last year, and has been generating positive reviews for its atmospheric style and vibrant visuals. The plot description reads as follows:
Kaho Seto stars as Miyabi, a woman who gets divorced and takes up work as a call girl following the tragic, accidental, death of her young daughter. One day, she is engaged by a strange client who requests to take a picture of her spine. Over the course of a number of appointments, he photographs nearly every part of her body. The woman comes to realize that every time he takes a photo, her dead daughter’s spirit gets closer. Soon, the only part of her body left to snap are her eyes.
Director Kondo has described his film as ‘a metaphor for Japanese society’, with some fans saying the work could reinvigorate the J-horror genre. Reel Suspects CEO Matteo Lovadina expressed his excitement for the project, calling it ‘…very powerful, with a surgical cinematography and screenplay. It attracts the audience into the deepness of its own world’
New Religion will have its U.S. premiere later this month at Slamdance Film Festival. Check out the trippy trailer below;
